| If you have recently suffered an injury to your ACL | | | | the ground by straightening your leg. You should feel |
| knee or have gone through surgery such as meniscus | | | | the back of your knee putting pressure on the pillow |
| surgery, it is important to start with "light" knee | | | | below it (do not lock your knee). |
| exercises before building to higher resistance training. | | | | Hold this position for about 10 seconds and slowly let |
| We will focus on minor leg lifts for this knee treatment | | | | your leg fold back over the pillow. |
| exercise in order to help strengthen the largest muscle | | | | Do this exercise until you feel a good burn in your |
| supporting the knee joint, which is the quadriceps. | | | | quadricep, which is that muscle on the front of your leg |
| Before doing these knee exercises, remember to | | | | just above your knee joint. |
| warm up first by doing about 5 minutes of light walking. | | | | Repeat this same exercise with your left leg. |
| First, you will need to find a place to sit comfortably | | | | Do these knee exercises at least twice a day until you |
| that has back support, such as a on the floor against | | | | can comfortably do it for 3 minutes at a time for each |
| your wall. | | | | leg, then you know that it is time to move on to the |
| Then, with your legs straight out in front of you, put a | | | | next resistance level. All you have to do differently at |
| pillow under your right knee. | | | | this point is sit in a chair and raise one leg at a time. |
| All you have to do is slowly raise your right foot off | | | | |